[fedora-virt] possible memory leak ?

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Apr 20 2010 [17:17:27], Razvan Radu wrote:
> hello,
> 
> after running an stress program in the guest for 6 to 24 hours the 
> qemu-kvm process uses up all the available memory and gets killed by 
> oom, is this an bug or an configuration problem ?
> 
> host:
> arch: intel i7 12gb ram
> fedora 12 updated as of 2010-04-19 with fedora-virt packages
> kernel: 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64
> qemu: qemu*0.12.3-7.fc12.x86_64, also tested with qemu*0.12.3-6.fc12.x86_64
> libvirt: libvirt*0.7.7-2.fc12.x86_64
> qemu command: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 3072 -smp 
> 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -name guest-00574 -uuid 
> 3f26c499-b029-3e1c-2410-fd197b262057 -nodefaults -chardev 
> socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/guest-00574.monitor,server,nowait 
> -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot dc -drive 
> if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0 -device 
> ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive 
> file=/dev/hdd.img/guest-00574-1,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,cache=none 
> -device 
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 
> -device 
> virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=54:52:00:00:00:49,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 
> -net tap,fd=21,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 
> -vnc 0.0.0.0:2 -vga cirrus -device 
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3

A similar issue is reported on the kvm list. It's related to virtio,
specifically virtio-blk. It would be great if you could hop on there and
aid debugging.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/50690

		Amit
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